Thursday, 21 January 2010

BBC London News is at it again

The journalists on BBC London News – individuals who don’t regard the regular crushing to death of London cyclists by lorries as newsworthy – have yet again come up with their favourite story, the monstrous injustice of parking enforcement. Revealingly, the story is linked on the BBC website to other stories on a similar theme from 2009 – a year when not a single left-turning lorry fatality was deemed worthy of mention on BBC News:

In other words, BBC London’s flat earth news continues to promote the idea that lawless drivers are victims, while maintaining a haughty indifference to the everyday oppression of pedestrians and cyclists by London’s most violent and lawless group – motorists. Road carnage is either marginalised or ignored completely, but one person’s whinge about parking enforcement is a story of galactic significance to the car supremacists at the BBC.